Annual Report of the Croton Aqueduct Department

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Page 16 - ... an act to reduce several laws relating particularly to the city of New York into one act...
Page 16 - ... Aqueduct ; and thereupon the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty, and the Croton Aqueduct Board, or any person or persons acting under their authority, may immediately, or at any time or times thereafter, take possession of the same, or any part or parts * thereof, without any suit or proceedings at law for that purpose.
Page 16 - SI have compared the preceding with an original law on file in this office, and do certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original. Given under my hand and seal of office, at the said city of Albany, the ninth day [LS] of July, in.
Page 15 - ... and on such final confirmation of such report by the said court, the said mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York shall become and be seised in fee of all the said lands, tenements, hereditaments, and premises in the said report mentioned, that shall or may be so required for the purpose of opening...
Page 13 - Any one of said commissioners of appraisal may issue subpoenas and administer oaths to witnesses, and they or any one of them, in the absence of the others, may adjourn the proceedings, from time to time in their discretion, but they shall continue to meet from time to time as may be necessary to hear, consider and determine upon all claims which may be presented to them under any of the provisions of this act.
Page 15 - ... corrected and revised, or a new report to be made by them in the premises to the said court without unnecessary delay; and the same on being so returned shall be...
Page 15 - ... returned in the premises, which the said Court shall confirm ; and such report, when so confirmed by the said Court, shall be final and conclusive, as well upon the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York, as upon all the owners, lessees, persons and parties interested in and entitled unto the lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises mentioned in the said report, and also upon all other persons whomsoever...
Page 14 - ... but in all, and each and every case and cases where the owners and parties interested, or their respective estates and interests, are unknown or not fully known to the said commissioners, it shall be sufficient for them to estimate and...
Page 13 - ... to perform the trust and duties required of them by this act...
Page 12 - At the time and place mentioned in said notice, unless the said court shall adjourn said application to a subsequent day, and in that event, at the time to which the same may be adjourned, the court, upon due proof to its satisfaction of the publication...

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